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955 Idle & Incremental games reviewed and scored, best first.
955 reviews
A cozy, no-pressure incremental game built around the simple rhythm of chopping ingredients, praised for a relaxing early-game loop and charming customization but held back by a punishing late-game grind and a weak prestige system reviewers say fails to meaningfully ease the slowdown.
6 / 10
An incremental dressed up as a slot machine parlour — pull the lever, earn virtual cash, automate your way out of debt — that most early reviewers finish in a single sitting, with the flattening mid-game progression curve as the main point of disagreement.
6 / 10
Defending a Potato Patch, One Smashed Beetle at a Time Spud Keeper is a $3.99 wave-defense action game with a delightfully mundane premise: rather than fending off zombies or alien
6 / 10
A solo-developer incremental RPG where you buy upgrades, unlock companions and grind through numbered stages toward a final boss, priced at NZ$2.99 and finished by most reviewers in a single sitting -- earning it a rare, near-unanimous verdict that it's honestly worth the asking price, alongside a pointed complaint that it's far shorter than the genre veterans it's priced against.
6 / 10
VaragtP's puppet-theatre clicker arrived on Steam three weeks after Clicker Heroes and never quite escaped its shadow, but a decade of quiet patching, an honest NZ$4.49 price and zero microtransactions still make it worth a look — provided you don't mind that several of its 50 achievements want you to leave it running for a hundred hours or more.
6 / 10
A free auto-battler RPG that runs as a tiny window pinned to your taskbar, built on a six-class roster and a stack-nine-to-rank-up loot system — undercut by a storefront that sells two more classes and the extra bag space its own item design is engineered to demand.
6 / 10
A free idle RPG that lives in your taskbar became a genuine phenomenon — peaking at over 360,000 concurrent players, briefly outranking everything on Steam except Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 — before its own server infrastructure buckled under that success and started eating players' item collections.
6 / 10
A free tile-building idler where four resources, a pantheon of gods, hired heroes and three separate prestige layers build a genuinely deep economy — undercut by a pacing curve that early reviewers accused of pushing spenders toward its Amber shop, and a developer who hasn't touched the game's balance since 2023.
6 / 10
A NZ$4.49 duck-themed incremental whose own store page promises offline income and careful balance — and whose players report an "extremely slow" AFK system and upgrade costs that hit a flat "MAX" wall well before the 15-achievement list is done.
6 / 10
A cheap, addictive card-flipping incremental with a genuinely novel finite structure and a Balatro-adjacent hook, praised for its carnival atmosphere and short, satisfying loop, while a large, detailed share of its own review corpus flags misleading store screenshots, an unbalanced ascension curve and a developer gone quiet for months.
6 / 10
Proton Studio put a first-person gun in the clicker genre's most abstract hand, turning "tap the cookie" into "shoot the cube wall." The framing genuinely changes the opening hours, but the studio moved on to two spiritual successors years ago and hasn't touched this one since a December 2021 holiday event.
6 / 10
An Arena Full of Balls, and Nobody Knows Why Too Many Balls launched September 18, 2026 from developer HeartBerry Studio and publisher Twisted Joy, handing the player a basket, a p
6 / 10
A single-player idle fantasy RPG about climbing an endless tower with an auto-fighting hero, undercut for years by one specific, unresolved launch bug that still locks some players' computers up on startup — and now winding down as its developer moves on to a successor.
6 / 10
A tightly executed forestry incremental from Mobmonks, Positive across 43 reviews for a snappy, well-balanced core loop and satisfying prestige system — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that its entire experience is over in two to four hours, a claim this review corroborated directly against remarkably high achievement completion rates spanning nearly the full progression curve.
6 / 10
A free-to-play node-based system-management idler from EnigmaDev Studios that thousands of reviewers describe as genuinely, dangerously addictive, undercut by a controversial 2.0 update that reviewers say reset progress and dramatically increased grind and monetisation, plus a missing undo button that several players report has erased hours of careful work in a single misclick.
6 / 10
A free Steam idle game about vacuuming dust into oblivion that a large share of its own audience openly calls a copy of Leaf Blower Revolution — and, three-plus years into Early Access, still hasn't shipped the 1.0 its own roadmap once promised for this year.
6 / 10
A cute, grimly charming swamp-clicker whose own reviewers can't agree on whether it's actually an idle game — a genuine design-honesty question this review works through rather than resolves in one direction, alongside a real, well-documented achievement grind.
6 / 10
A year before Moonlighter made "run a shop by day, loot a dungeon by night" a genre unto itself, Weapon Shop Fantasy tried the same dual-loop pitch from the other direction — stay behind the counter, send your staff out adventuring, and craft what they bring back into gear to sell. The idea holds up better than its rough edges do.
6 / 10
A short, sharply-designed incremental healer game that condenses the specific thrill of MMO raid healing into a few focused hours, earning devoted praise from ex-healers while a real, detailed minority argues its resource grind and thin build variety undercut the loop it's built around.
6 / 10
A ten-dollar guild-management tactics RPG with a genuinely clever idea — your weapon determines your class — sitting behind a 90% Steam rating that doesn't survive close inspection. The game is decent. The review page is the story.
6 / 10
A solo developer's slow, deliberately gentle idle sheep-collecting game with more than 50 fleece patterns to discover — genuinely adorable by near-unanimous agreement, but thin enough in content for its price that even reviewers who liked it question whether shearing, feeding and breeding sheep is quite enough to fill the hours a full-price purchase implies.
6 / 10
A minimalist, ink-wash-styled idle cultivation RPG with a complete xianxia realm-progression chain and an unusually responsive solo developer, widely praised in its small Chinese-language review base for value and rapid update cadence, held back by thin current content, several specific automation and UI-clarity bugs, and one detailed complaint disputing the store page's offline-progression claim.
6 / 10
An idle game about writing software that picks the smartest possible theme for the genre — and then hits a scaling wall a few tiers in, while its design is still being rewritten in public.
6 / 10
Read review of Yet Another Incremental Game (but this time about coding)
KaiPlay Studio's Your Big, Cute Monster Farm turns a corner of the desktop into a Rusty's Retirement-style idle farm tended by fusible monster companions, earning a Mostly Positive reception for its charming presentation and flexible hands-on-or-off pacing, tempered by a dominant, heavily repeated complaint about steep, exponentially scaling late-game costs that stall progress for hundreds of hours.
6 / 10
